The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-01
souin Jersey Notes.

The Baptist Church nj Port Norris j. to BE
somewhat improved y new parsonage is also
TO he built.
The window glass trade in sonihpersey i, re-
ported 10 be better This season than forSeveral
years past.
An unknown man. about 10 years of age.
committed suicide ia cell in the Camden
City prison on Monday by taking poison.
Some Of the citizens are trying to form
steamboat company in Bridgeton, for freight
ing purposes between that city and Philadel-
phia.
\ cores pondcnt of the Bridgeton Netos adj
vocates having Pinkcrfon detectives toineesti-
gate the workings OF the Key clubs in that
city.
y part ofthc new College of Physicians and
Surgeons oil West JERSEY i far completed
that il can he used for meeting and hospital
purposes.
The rule against passes on The Camden Ter
ries is 10 be 20 rgidly enforced that ii is stat
ed the Directors will hereafter be required I"
pay for their carriages in crossing.
The right of way to cross streets at grade has
been given to the W est Jersey Railroad Com
pany by the Bridgeton City Council i'll order
that it may extend it, line into that city.
turned over to the county through the Board
of FreehoIders oil May ). There will probably
he a celebration of some 10 mark the event.
y plumber of robberics have recently occur
red at Glas.boro. Among them Mis- The rail
road Office, where $40 taken, and the
theft ola valuable horse from William Paulin.
DR.. brewer, the newly appointed rostmas-
ter OF Nineland, took possession OF the office
last Friday. and has appointed Miss Libbie
Robinson, former resident of Nineland, rs
chief deputy
George 6. Green, of W oodburY, now travel
ing in the west, was greatly pleased with
the appearance and prospects of Pasadena, a
thriving California resort, that he invested
$4,000 in real estate there.
The West jersey Railroad stations Mt Pitman
Grove and sewell City We're broken into on
Monday night and small sums of money stolen
from each. Oflate there has beena systematic
robhing of stations alone the line of This road.
The West Jersey Railroad Companyon Mon
day next viii lose all traffic both freight and
passenger, from the Cumberland and Port
Norris Railroad. The trains OF the latter COM
pany that date viii run into The Central
Railroad depot in Bridgeton, and new rolling
stock will be placed on the road.
william NJ singerly, Frank >iddatil and
number Of other capitalists of Philadelphia,
have purchased seven Mile Beach, above Cape
May, for syst, Coz, ana intend To convert it into
a summer resort. The tract is eight miles long
and from quarter to half mile wide and is
partly covered with pine timber
4 destructive woods fire took place on Tues
day, near the Jewish settlement at Beaver
Dam, Cumberland county. sweeping over
about 709 acres of woodland, and destroying
5000 worth of timber belonging 10 John Pike,
OF MnlviHe. The fire also destroyed a lot of
fencing and Two ouibuiidings ON the stock
farm of Il. D. W God < Co, causing loss of $500
The wife of Harvey Hughes, of Port Eliza
beth committed suicide on Tuesday during
fit OF dependency. Her husband found her
in the bedroom with her throat cut from ear
TO ear She stood in front OF the looking-glass
while she committed the deed y note on the
bureau Explained that she did not commit The
deed on account of any previous trouble She
had had with her husband.
Meetings OF farmers are being held in lower
Cape May county To establish an outside
steam freight line 10 New York during the
summer and i;,ll months. Farmers are asked
TO pledge that they III ship their produce by
this line and DO all possible Tor its success.
Colonel Henry W. sawyer Is al the head of The
movement, ana already many marlct-sarden
ers and farmers have volunteered their coop
Grafton.
The unoneM inti;nation thai the Ptnnsyl-
vania Railroad Company has decided To in
crease the passenger rates npon it, New Jcr-
Sey lines 20 per cent. including three months
communication tickets, and that the roundtrip
tickets are IL be dispensed with after to-day,
has created a sort of panic among The regular
riders out of Camden. The daily passengers
between burlington and Camden are seriously
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of securing a fast
steamboat which viii be able to make the trip
in am honr and a quarter As soon the
Official schedule of rates shall have been pub
lished The patrons of the Iailroaa viii take
some action.
r. t. Btrnum tells the following little story
of how ht was recently fooled by ,jerseymap
from the sand hills OF ocean county: ~ Mn
Lindsay wrote to me that he had at Toms
River, \. j., six-;oot, tWo-headcd turtle
Well that would be bigger curiosity Than a
lion that cost 5000. and So sent nay manager
down 10 Toms River 10 get that .six-ieot,
doublo.hcaael turtle atany price. When the
turtle was produced it didn't show mp more
than ordinary size although it had two heads
ofcourSe we didn't want il. In the crowd no
body would oversee such wee thing The
man Was honest, however, aud l was fooled,
forthe turtle was "A six footer aft.'rai 1t had
six feet